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Shubhendu Shekhar Khali1, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Debasish Chaudhuri
1Department of Physical Science, Indian Institute Of Science Education and Research Mohali, Punjab 140306, India. chakraborty@iisermohali.ac.in shubhendushekhar@iisermohali.ac.in.
Abstract:
We present a detailed numerical simulation study of a two-dimensional system of particles interacting via the Weeks-Chandler-Anderson potential, the repulsive part of the Lennard-Jones potential. With the reduction of density, the system shows a two-step melting: a continuous melting of solid to hexatic phase, followed by a first-order melting of hexatic to liquid. The solid-hexatic melting is consistent with the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young (BKTHNY) scenario and shows dislocation unbinding. The first-order melting of the hexatic to the liquid phase, on the other hand, displays defect-strings formed at the hexatic-liquid interfaces. We present a detailed phase diagram in the density-temperature plane.
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